Amazon has launched a firmware replace for the tenth and Eleventh-generation Kindle e-readers. The 5.17.1 firmware is just obtainable for older fashions. The replace features a few minor options. The “Whispersync for Books” setting inside System Choices known as “Sync.” The underlying synchronization performance has not been modified. It additionally fixes a bug clients could have skilled when opening the studying toolbar, the place “time left within the chapter” is unavailable. It crashes utilizing Japanese ruby characters or the “Go To” possibility from House and Library.
Customers have claimed that the brand new replace reduces the proportion left in a ebook on the backside of the display to its unique dimension however nonetheless aligns with the margins of the principle textual content. Highlighting appears much less buggy, however highlights are nonetheless shut collectively, with out the hole between traces. Nevertheless, sideloaded fonts are nonetheless busted; they at all times revert to Bookerly.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the previous fifteen years. Newspapers and web sites such because the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Publish and the New York Occasions have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
